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Speaker 1: This is the Fitsy and with her with Kate Richie podcast.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to a little bonus podcast. It's Kate Richie and

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Speaker 2: I'm here with the lovely Jess. Hello Jess. It's your

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Speaker 2: first Mother's Day this year, isn't it It is?

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Speaker 1: We've got little Harry ten months old, first Mother's Day

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Speaker 1: sharing it with my lovely wife Tone.

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Speaker 2: I don't know if this is sad or not.

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Speaker 1: We've actually decided not to do presents because there's nothing

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Speaker 1: either of us want, and we thought, well, we have

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Speaker 1: to buy it for each other. So are we better

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Speaker 1: off just having a nice dinner or something together instead.

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Speaker 2: That's such a lovely idea, because I have to say,

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Speaker 2: I was thinking, whose day is it? In your house?

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Speaker 2: I know exactly got too much.

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Speaker 1: It was quite funny though. Harry came home from daycare

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Speaker 1: which he's just started yesterday, and home picked him up,

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Speaker 1: and she said that his teacher handed her a little

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Speaker 1: artwork that he had done, and she said, I'm so sorry.

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Speaker 1: We did try and make two of them. He just

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Speaker 1: wasn't having it. So the artwork is it's just a

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Speaker 1: yellow page. There's about three little splotches of red and

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Speaker 1: it says happy Mother's Day and the apostrophe is before

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Speaker 1: the s quite right for the two of us. No,

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Speaker 1: but he's only ten months.

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Speaker 2: We will get there. And you know what, the greatest

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Speaker 2: gift is that he is here in the first place.

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Speaker 1: That's exactly right.

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Speaker 2: So Happy Mother's Day. We just thought we would do

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Speaker 2: this little extra podcast. I wrote a book Once upon

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Speaker 2: a Time. That's not the name of the book. The

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Speaker 2: name of the book is I Just couldn't wait to

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Speaker 2: meet you. And I actually began this book as a

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Speaker 2: bit of a love letter to my daughter. I started

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Speaker 2: writing it when I was on maternity leave back in

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Speaker 2: twenty fourteen, when I had my daughter May. And then

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Speaker 2: I thought, you know what, I think there might be

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a book in this. And so

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Speaker 2: we just thought today, maybe you're listening to this podcast

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Speaker 2: in bed, hopefully someone's made you a cup of tea,

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Speaker 2: or maybe not. Maybe you're not surrounded by kids and

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Speaker 2: you just want to have a listen, because Mother's Day

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Speaker 2: can mean many different things to many different people.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's exactly right. And I remember when we first

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Speaker 1: had Harry, you sent us the most beautiful little care

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Speaker 1: package and in it was this book made out to Harry.

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Speaker 1: I've been reading it to him ever since. I feel

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Speaker 1: very honored to be able to sit here and have

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Speaker 1: you read your special book out everyone.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. All right, here we go now.

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Speaker 2: Feel nervous, don't be nervous. It's just me, settle in

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Speaker 2: and all the listeners. I just couldn't wait to meet you.

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Speaker 2: By Kate Richie that's me, and illustrated by Hannah Somerville.

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Speaker 2: But you're gonna have to buy the book to see

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Speaker 2: the pictures.

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Speaker 1: Oh good, good, little hook and teas.

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Speaker 2: There, here we go. I just couldn't wait to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Once upon a special time before you had arrived, when

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Speaker 2: you were still a treasured bump tucked safe away inside.

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Speaker 2: I thought about you night and day and in my sleep.

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Speaker 2: It's true, my heart was full of hope and love.

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Speaker 2: I just couldn't wait to meet you. Who you'd be

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Speaker 2: would fill my thoughts? A little girl or little boy?

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Speaker 2: Would you grow up big and strong? What would be

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Speaker 2: your face? Favorite toy? I dreamt of how you'd look

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Speaker 2: and feel your nose, your feet, your bot and would

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Speaker 2: you gaze right back at me? Sounds crazy, but it's not.

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Speaker 2: All The love I felt inside was scary fun and new.

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Speaker 2: At times it felt like I would burst. I just

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Speaker 2: couldn't wait to meet you. This was my favorite bit,

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Speaker 2: and now you're here, the world feels right and brighter

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Speaker 2: every day. And although sometimes you challenge me, I know

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Speaker 2: we will be okay because my life is full of

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Speaker 2: love and all the joy you bring, your precious good

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Speaker 2: and funny too. Each day my glad heart sings. So

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Speaker 2: I'll be here to what you grow and guide you

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Speaker 2: on your way, and you can show me who you

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Speaker 2: are a little more each day, no matter how the

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Speaker 2: seasons change or what you say or do. I love

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Speaker 2: you now and always will. I am so lucky that

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Speaker 2: I met you. I just couldn't wait to meet you.

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Speaker 2: The end.

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Speaker 1: What a beautiful book. I love that so much. That

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Speaker 1: was so special to read that when we were expecting Harry,

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Speaker 1: and then to read it to him after is just

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Speaker 1: so nice, beautiful story.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much. And that is what is so

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Speaker 2: lovely about the book is the amount of parents or

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Speaker 2: hopeful parents, people who have had children or once did,

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Speaker 2: and now grandparents and even people who don't have children

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Speaker 2: of their own, but it always hope to or hope

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Speaker 2: to one day. Just the amount of stories and kind

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Speaker 2: words that I received from people. It's just it's so nice.

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Speaker 2: Considering this started out as a bit of a scribble

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Speaker 2: on a page. It's turned into a book. And as

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Speaker 2: I've said before, it kind of got me out of

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Speaker 2: doing the you know, the traditional baby book for me

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Speaker 2: because one day I know she's going to ask me

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Speaker 2: where that baby book. You know what. I didn't get

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Speaker 2: that finished, Dalen, but I did write you a book.

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Speaker 2: It's in print and you can buy it.

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Speaker 1: I mean, unless your hand or a check.

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Speaker 2: You might want the other baby no, I know. Anyway,

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Speaker 2: Happy Mother's Day, wherever you are, however you're spending it.

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